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  Title

  When is it right to die? : a comforting and surprising look at death and dying Updated edition.

  Author

  Tada, Joni Eareckson.  

  Publisher:

  Zondervan,

  Pub date:

  [2018]

  Pages:

  204 pages ; 22 cm

  ISBN:

  9780310349945

  Item info:

  1 copy available in Adult nonfiction shelves.
  1 copy total in all locations.

  • 9780310349945
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    Call number	Copies	Material	Location
    362.280973 TAD	1	Trade Paperback (larger paperback)	Adult nonfiction shelves

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  When is it right to die? : a comforting and surprising look at death and dying Updated edition.
  Tada, Joni Eareckson.
  
  
  

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  When is it right to die? : a comforting and surprising look at death and dying Updated edition.
  Tada, Joni Eareckson.
  

  Personal Author:

  Tada, Joni Eareckson.

  Title:

  When is it right to die? : a comforting and surprising look at death and dying / Joni Eareckson Tada.

  Edition:

  Updated edition.

  Physical description:

  204 pages ; 22 cm

  General Note:

  Originally published in 1992 as: When is it right to die?: Suicide, euthanasia, suffering, mercy.

  Contents:

  A time to live? Introduction: Let's begin here ; Painful words ; The pain is real ; Why not die? -- A time to choose. Your decision matters to others ; Your decision matters to you ; Your decision matters to the enemy ; Your decision matters to God -- A time to die. Sustaining life, but not prolonging death ; Knowing the difference isn't easy ; Life worth living -- Epilogue -- Appendix: A classic perspective on the Hippocratic oath / C. Everett Koop).

  Summary:

  More and more people who are terminally ill are choosing assisted suicide. Confined to a wheelchair for the past fifty years, struggling against her own paralysis, Tada has herself questioned: why not end it all quickly, painlessly? Here she offers alternatives of hope, compassion, and death with real dignity, while giving warm comfort from God and practical help to meet the realities for those facing death.

  Subject term:

  Suicide--Social aspects--United States.

  Subject term:

  Suicide--Religious aspects--Christianity.

  Subject term:

  Euthanasia--Social aspects--United States.

  Subject term:

  Euthanasia--Religious aspects--Christianity.

  Subject term:

  Right to die--United States.

  Subject term:

  People with disabilities--United States--Attitudes.

  Geographic term:

  United States.